[2banana]

The 29th division was the first to hit the beach and they were a NATIONAL GUARD unit.

[johnny7]

My moms cousin Joe landed in a later wave and missed the early carnage.

He was killed by a female sniper in house-to-house fighting on the penninsula.

This information was given to his father by a GI who was with him at the time.

[cav68]

I am proud to say my Dad was in the 29th and he served his Unit and Country proud that day. He and I talked about that D-Day only once and then not until I returned from Vietnam. On some occasions he would laugh about when he was wounded in other areas of his campaign but he never wanted to talk about June 6 but the one time.